Senior Engineer, Build & Release Infrastructure

Summary

Join the Launchpad team as a motivated engineer with a passion for open-source software, Linux, and web services. This is an opportunity to drive the future of collaborative development tooling, working on a mature project written in Python.

Requirements

• You love technology, working with brilliant people, and solving interesting problems
• You are a strategic thinker
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have proficiency delivering robust code to production, preferably written in Python
• You have experience and enjoy maintaining and improving large and mature web applications
• You have experience with databases, ORMs (PostgreSQL a plus), data management, and data modelling
• You believe that robust security requires conscious efforts at every stage of delivery
• You have familiarity with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform
• You have a solid understanding of the structure of various software packaging systems, including Debian/Ubuntu packages

Responsibilities

• Proactively collaborate within and contribute to design, architecture, and feature-selection for solutions across distributed teams
• Write high-quality, API-first Python code with unit tests
• Debug issues and produce high-quality fixes
• Review code produced by other engineers